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Reading Time: 2 minutes The Creation Museum decided to stop playing a particular video when they discovered that their model who played the role of Adam had a scandalous past. The backstory is here. Eric has made a statement on his website about the press he’s received recently: Wow… thank you to the press people freaking out over nothing […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes I think I’m on Shirley Phelps-Roper’s side for once… kind of. Shirley is the daughter of Fred Phelps, whose entire family is known for protesting military funerals because God is punishing our country for “harboring gays and lesbians” (and apparently, the two ideas are connected). The family’s church’s website is GodHatesFags.com. It’s very easy to […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes … will be told in detail in Mike Jones’ new book I Had To Say Something: The Art of Ted Haggard’s Fall. (Did anyone else catch the double meaning in the subtitle?) For the past few months (a very quick turnaround time), Jones has been working on this book which includes a section on his […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute If you ever wanted a good source to back up the statement that atheists are the minority least likely to get elected, Data360 has some nice graphs pulling together the various Gallup poll results on the topic. Here’s the atheist chart in depth. Compare that chart to those of how many people would vote for […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes A collection of responses regarding Jerry Falwell’s death from various groups and people is below: American Atheists: While we recognize and respect the grief of friends and relatives, it must be acknowledged in the wake of Rev. Falwell’s death that he and the organizations he founded, especially the so-called Moral Majority, were serious threats to […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Chuck Norris seems to think atheists are trying to outlaw Christianity. Sure we are… After naming most of the major atheist/Humanist groups in the country, Norris says this: Though the U.S. Constitution outlaws religious discrimination, these organizations and individuals would love nothing more than to help society look with distain [sic] upon Christianity and, ultimately, […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Mike Clawson is a regular commenter on this blog. He wants to see equal rights for gay people, believes in Evolution, strongly advocates the separation of church and state, endorses humanist ideals, and doesn’t think the Bible should always be read literally. All this may be unusual because he is a Christian pastor. Though if […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Last week, a strange event happened at the Fort Lauderdale Airport. Here’s a law professor from Florida explaining what went down: At approximately 12:45 am, my partner and I were in the baggage claim area in terminal 3. We had just arrived from Chicago and were waiting for our bags when an announcement came over […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Last month, I wrote about Venus Magazine, which catered to African-American gays and lesbians. Then, its publisher Charlene Cothran found God and supposedly stopped being gay. As a result, Cothran changed the magazine’s mission to helping those who also wanted to become straight. Apparently, some Christian media folks are upset this didn’t receive more coverage. […]